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Yeah watching a documentry recently, apprantly if you go into the country of china you see more families with a bit more children. I think they are fined for it though, but apprantly some of them don't get caught that much since its in the country.

Call me Mr Cynical-pants but this is a second-hand report of a story in a foreign language newspaper. If a similar story was told about a couple in Little Sheepbotheringford, Aberdeenshire or Bumfuck, MO then we'd be up in arms about the paper linking games to a story about people doing something so awful, as if games are the cause and not a symptom of the problem. But it seems like it's all "oh, it's China, you know what they're like with their MMOs and their weird family planning issues". No-one's even slightly sceptical about this?

Selling children is - or was - not uncommon in China, although usually it's daughters. Can't speak as to present day, as I don't live there, but they just recently busted a sizeable human trafficking ring.

You're right, though, who knows how authentic the piece was. Maybe more sensationalist tripe aimed at gaming - the source was a chinese newspaper, after all.

Last edited by Kablooie; 27-07-2011 at 07:04 PM.

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